Hi, I spent the afternoon paying a lot of music on my new bda-1 using the transporter to drive it.
As soon as I played the first few seconds of music through the BDA-1 I was surprised to hear it walking all over how the transporter's balanced analog out puts sounded. The BDA-1 is cleaner sounding --- all the way from the top to the bottom. Just sounds very cleaned up from how the transporter sounds to me. A haze, glare, grain or what not is removed from the sound that I didn't know was there. Vocals are better. Also sounds more musical less mechanical too boot. Overall sounds almost like a component has been removed from the signal chain or maybe more like a significant preamplifier upgrade or remvoal of a preamp. Just very very very clean and musical sounding..... I'm using a bp-26, pair of Bryston 28Bs, and a pair of Nautilus 800s and coaxial output on the transporter with BNC connectors to the BNC Coaxial inputs on the bda-1. I am a bit suprised that to my ears the bda-1 sounds signficantly better then the transporter (better match for my preamp?). From what most people say on this forum the transporter is kind of the end all killer D/A cost busting converter. I thought that two units would have been a lot closer in terms of sound quality in my system. I wasn't really dissatisfied with the transporters sound, until now.... The bda-1 this afternoon just seemed to be a lot more involving, has a lot more grove and sounded less fake then the transporter. It sounds like the transporter is doing everything right, but somehow it seems like it is acting vs being the real thing. The bda-1 with the transporter driving it comes closer in my system to the real thing in terms of the music.. the two toghther are worth every penny :) thanks -- indexit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ indexit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16063 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50868 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
